Friday, April 24, 2009

Almost Deadly bite


A 94-year-old Australian woman may be the oldest person known to survive the bite of a male Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest spiders.  The great-grandmother was bitten not once, but twice.  The spider that bit her turned out to be a male funnel-web, whose venom is more poisonous than the females. Sydney Funnel-web male spiders are one of the most venomous spiders in the world.

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